Boss losing his mind? Eh. Jailed without evidence? Uhhh... Screw with my family? Damn. Here we go.
(complete novel at 100K words, only 20% uploaded on this site)
Heroes are born under extraordinary circumstances. Without failure in the face of those same circumstances, there would be no heroes in this world. Just as there would be no good without evil, no right without wrong, no up without down.
Sam Archer gets the chance to be a hero, and he couldn't be more pissed off about it. He just wanted to quietly rebuild his life after a messy divorce. Stable job, comfortable relationship and happy well-adjusted kids. That was it.
Then he finds his coworker dead, and his boss starts raving about kidnapping, murder and conspiracy theories. Wonderful.
As Archer's life crumbles around him, and his family's lives are in danger, he knows what has to be done.
But he has no idea how.
And that's the most helpless feeling in the world.